Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	abomination_n	let_v	zion_n	31	3	9.1166	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09701	The life of a Christian which is a lamp kindled and lighted from the love of Christ, and most naturally discovereth its original, by the purity, integrity and fervency of its motion, in love to its fellow-partners in the same life. Briefly displayed in this its peculiar and distinguishing strain of operation. As also some few catechistical questions concerning the way of salvation by Christ. Together with a post-script about religion. / By Isaac Penington, (junior) esq;.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1653 (1653)	Wing P1176; ESTC R181602	61,844	104

they were in Christ and had the eternal life of God and Christ in them They knew that they were of God and that the Son of God was come who gave them an understanding to know him that is true and that they were in him that is true in his Son Jesus Christ And this was no high-flown fancy concerning God and eternal life which consists only in the elevation of the imagination but the truth This is the true God and eternal life 1 Joh. 5.19 20. What shall we say then to these things Is it not time for us to make a stand and look about us Is it not time for us to miss the Lord and seek to begin with him Man is naturally confident and yet commonly deceived in the ground-work of his confidence From our first springing up in Popery unto all our rents and divisions thence both in Doctrine and Worship we have still been confident that we have always been in the right How vain is man In every change he confesseth himself wrong and yet that still to which he changeth must needs be right Ah wretched man There is a lye in thy heart which springs up in all thy thoughts and ways of devotion and until thou beest new formed thou wilt not be capable of entertaining the truth but only of deluding thy self What should I advise thee what can be proper for thee but to examine the true ground and joyn with the house of Israel lamenting after the Lord to bewail the loss of his light his life his guidance his presence The cause of joy is not the cause of grief only is and is in abundance and where it is manifested with demonstration and power there will not need any exhortation to it I must profess I would rather chuse tears although I were sure they should never be wiped away from mine eyes after substance after that which my spirit wants and can alone take up with then the greatest mirth or pleasure which vanity for such I account all the Religion of man with all that springs from it can afford Rejoyce in the Lord always They might well rejoyce always in the Lord who enjoyed the Lord who had a kind of constant presence of the Bridegroom in their spirits Their Lord lived in them walked with them and kept them company by his Spirit But is this spoken to us who are Orphans Though the spirit of man in his several ways of Religion is not an Orphan therefore he may rejoyce also The same Spirit of the Lord which piped unto the Apostles and primitive Christians administring unto them occasion of dancing mourneth unto us and our proper way of answering it is in lamentation Lament therefore after the Lord and mourn over Jerusalem Mourn over the ruines and desolations of Jerusalem Pity the dust of Sion Jerusalem hath been layd waste Sion lieth in the dust nay Sion is it self burnt into dust by the extream jealousie and fury of the Eternal who hath let out his flames more fiercely upon her then upon any abomination to be found among men Jerusalem hath drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury yea it hath drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out Isai 52.17 Yet she is still Jerusalem she is still Sion and her very dust is lovely The Lord knoweth her and loveth her dust and it is impossible for any to discover her native worth and beauty and not to pity and mourn over her present condition What is this the Lords darling is this the only beauty will scoffing earth say Ishmael cannot but despise Isaac though growing though thriving though owned by the Lord how contemptible then must he needs be in his death and burial The world wanting the inward eye wonders to hear God speak such great things of his people of the abundantly rich glory and excellency of their life they appear so mean to them at the best They never have the loveliness of man in them how loathsom then must they needs be when all that which is their own beauty is broken down in them when the remainders of their earthly beauty with the whole frame of their spiritual beauty is dashed in peeces like a potters vessel and burnt up together Yet how precious is the seed of God under all these how amiable is this very dust of Sion The very brokenness sickness misery of this estate is of more true value then all the soundness then all the health of life and Salvation that is any where else to be found throughout the whole Earth Yet this object is very lamentable and it would grieve any ones heart to behold it He who hath seen known tasted or had the least glimpse of Sion in her glory O how would his heart throb at the view of her here yet here if not here alone is she to be found Is it nothing to thee O thou Preserver of man that the foundations of thine own holy Habitation are thus shaken Where is thy Zeal where is the sounding of thy Bowels at the death and misery of thine own seed O Lord wilt thou also bring forth children to the Murtherer Awake O Lord Rouze up thy self Let thine own everlasting Spirit stir in the motions of its own life and never leave till it hath raised up disconsolate Jerusalem desolate Jerusalem afflicted Jerusalem distracted Jerusalem Jerusalem which is sunk dead and rotten Jerusalem which is not and hath made it the praise of the whole Earth AMEN FINIS